Nuts famous quotes
07-16-2025
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
-- Adam Carolla -
I may be a nut, but I'm fastened to a good bolt, the Lord Jesus Christ.
-- Adrian Rogers -
I have to get back to the hotel. But I don't know the way. I always rely on Shouji so I didn't notice where we were going. Nut I came to this point. without realising my attitude and actions. It's like I am slowing falling into a valley. I wonder where I'm standing now.
-- Ai Yazawa -
It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!
-- Akshay Kumar -
They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
-- Al McGuire -
When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
-- Al McGuire -
When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
-- Al McGuire -
I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.
-- Alanis Morissette -
What do you do when you see a man masturbating at a salad baran actual salad shooterbut wait, I'm single, we're both at the salad bar, we have a lot in common. I like fresh produce, he likes to get fresh with produce. I like nuts on my salad, he likes to nut on his salad.
-- Alison Rosen -
I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
I read the script and I really liked it. It was high energy, crazy and it goes to any level to get people nuts and I thought Eve was an interesting character. At first I didn't get her, so it made me want to do the role because I wanted to dive in and see what she was about. On top of that I also wanted to work with Jason Statham because he's an amazing actor.
-- Amy Smart -
Peppers, garlic, hazelnuts and brazil nuts make my mouth, tongue and eyes swell and itch within minutes of eating them.
-- Andrea McLean -
The thing that drives me nuts is when I get stopped in a crowded place, and they look at me and say, 'Who are you?' I don't know if they're friends or fans, and I say, 'I'm Annabella Sciorra', and they say, 'What have you done?' So I start to give them my resume. It's so embarrassing.
-- Annabella Sciorra -
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.
-- Anne Bronte -
... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]
-- Anne Lamott -
I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow who must have been nuts. You got to remember that I'd been a Marine, had gone through basic training and spent 26 months in the Pacific during WWII, but the Marine drill instructors had nothing on Clem.
-- Art Donovan -
We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.
-- Art Garfunkel -
In America you're conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ's sake?
-- Arthur Ashe -
Young boy, let his gun bang, let his nuts hang Transition to a Lamborghini from a Mustang Drugs slang in the drug game with the hustling (I know one thing) Anything is better than that 1 train
-- ASAP Rocky -
Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.
-- Bess Truman -
What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide
-- Bill Vaughan -
I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet.
-- Bob Saget -
When people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts!
-- Bobby Flay -
If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.
-- Bobby Heenan -
I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.
-- Brenda Lee -
running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!
-- Brenda Ueland -
What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!
-- Brion Gysin -
Of course the sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not? The Great Conundrum: 'What are we here for?' is all that ever held us here in the first place. Fear. The answer to the Riddle of the Ages has actually been out in the street since the First Step in Space. Who runs may read but few people run fast enough. What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!
-- Brion Gysin -
The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.
-- Brock Yates -
Love your enemies and drive them nuts.
-- Brother Dave Gardner -
Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.
-- Budd Schulberg -
What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be. Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are.
-- Caitlin Moran -
If I were thin, I'd never say 'I am powerless over fudge.' a) I can't believe I actually ever said that. b) Which, of course, isn't to say that I do have any power over fudge. Particularly if it has nuts.
-- Camryn Manheim -
If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!
-- Cesar Romero -
Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.
-- Charles Saatchi -
Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.
-- Charles Stross -
Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. "I have kola," he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest. "Thank you. He who brings kola brings life. But I think you ought to break it," replied Okoye passing back the disc. "No, it is for you, I think," and they argued like this for a few moments before Unoka accepted the honor of breaking the kola. Okoye, meanwhile, took the lump of chalk, drew some lines on the floor, and then painted his big toe.
-- Chinua Achebe -
I was in the Pritikin Center in Santa Monica once, trying to lose 30 or 40 pounds in a month. I'd work... on a treadmill and with the weights, but it was driving me nuts. So I escaped. Tom Arnold picked me up and we went to Le Dome and had tons of desserts.
-- Chris Farley -
My fans have designated themselves the, uh, 'Pine Nuts.' They're a nutty bunch.
-- Chris Pine -
My shoots are very much about skin, so I'm an exfoliating and moisturizing nut. I fly so much, so I take my makeup off as soon as I get on the airplane. I look at my watch every half hour and moisturize.
-- Chrissy Teigen -
While traveling, I love granola bars, trail mix nuts, dry cereal and fruit for on-the-go snacks. I also try and start the day with a high fiber and protein meal, such as whole-grain toast with peanut butter.
-- Christie Rampone -
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.
-- Christine Lavin -
Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You will say to your partner: do you really love me? Are you sure you love me? You will ask this a dozen times and drive the person nuts. But you never ask: are you really mad at me? Are you sure you’re angry? When someone is angry, you don’t doubt it for a moment. Yet the reverse should be true. We should doubt the negative in life, and have faith in the positive.
-- Christopher Pike -
I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.
-- Chuck D -
The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.
-- Chuck Grassley -
Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.
-- Cindy Sherman -
It is far better to be happy than to have your bodies act as graveyards for animals. Accordingly, the apostle [St.] Matthew partook of seeds, nuts and vegetables, without meat.
-- Clement of Alexandria -
I couldn't care less about who sees my bits ... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn't like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut!
-- Colin Farrell -
We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.
-- Criss Jami -
The infinite possibilities. That's what used to do my nut in.
-- Damien Hirst -
Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.
-- Dan Brown -
I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.
-- Dave Freudenthal -
I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealands economic performance.
-- David Cunliffe -
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.
-- David Icke -
When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense.
-- David Letterman -
A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.
-- David McGee -
Every study on chocolate is pointing to the same conclusion: there is something in chocolate that is really good for us. That something is the raw cacao bean, the nut that all chocolate is made from. The cacao bean has always been and will always be Nature's #1 weight loss and high-energy food. Cacao beans are probably the best kept secret in the entire history of food.
-- David Wolfe -
I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish and monounsaturated fats from olives, olive oil and nuts. A lot of organic, fresh fruits and vegetables. No bread. No gluten. No wheat. No rice.
-- Dean Karnazes -
The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. … The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.
-- Derek Sivers -
If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in.
-- Derek Sivers -
It was the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader.
-- Derek Sivers -
I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.
-- Dick Van Dyke -
I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts...
-- Dolly Parton -
I've drank more beer and pissed more blood and banged more women than all you numb nuts put together!
-- Dolph Lundgren -
I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two.
-- Dominic Monaghan -
I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.
-- Donna Shalala -
Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.
-- E. L. Konigsburg -
Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts
-- Eddie Van Halen -
I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
-- Eddie Van Halen -
Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.
-- Edwin Arnold -
And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.
-- Eli Wallach -
I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.
-- Eliot Spitzer -
When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.
-- Eliza Dushku -
I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.
-- Elizabeth Hurley -
I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.'
-- Elmore Leonard -
I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.
-- Elton John -
The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.
-- Emily Dickinson -
If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!
-- Eminem -
I have big nuts. huge nuts. Elephantitis of the balls - that's what I have.
-- Eminem -
My English teacher wanted to have sex with me in Junior High...the only problem was, my English teacher was a guy...I smacked him in his face with an eraser, chased him with a stapler and stapled his nuts to a stack of papers.
-- Eminem -
Nuts they go, macadamia they go so ballistic, whoa.
-- Eminem -
The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as kids simultaneously light up our lives and drive us nuts. I was trying to capture that strange, bipolar quality of parenthood. For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.
-- Emma Donoghue -
The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.
-- Emma Watson -
Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic.
-- Euell Gibbons -
It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.
-- Evan Esar -
I think that being isolated from the Hollywood world of premieres and red carpet events was probably good for me because I could ease into those at will and by my own choice. But in other aspects, when it comes to fanfare, Hawaii is nuts and in L.A. they're all so jaded. They don't care.
-- Evangeline Lilly -
Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut.
-- Evelyn Nesbit -
I never cook at home. After 15 hours at work, I don't have much of a desire to cook at home. I do eat at home, but it's always something simple. Raw nuts. Almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts--these are marvelous products. I am, however, the type that likes to go out to eat a lot. I never tire of it.
-- Ferran Adria -
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
-- Franz Kafka -
I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.
-- Gary Numan -
I'm basically a really happy person. My life is nuts, but it feels complete.
-- Gayle King -
When I step into the kitchen in the morning, I go for the scrambled eggs with pine nuts and minced lamb. When I finish at night, it is hard to resist the burger.
-- Geoffrey Zakarian -
I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
-- George H. W. Bush -
Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.
-- George Nethercutt -
What we put into every moment is all we have. You can drug yourself to death or you can smoke yourself to death or eat yourself to death, or you can do everything right and be healthy and then get hit by a car. Life is so great, such a neat thing, and yet all during it we have to face death, which can make you nuts and depressed.
-- Gilda Radner
